Relationship between Round-trip Usage and Route Characteristics of Bus Stop OD

- Case study of Community Bus in Nisshin City, Japan

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Many community buses in Japan are characterized by their one-way circular routes with long travel distances, in order to maintain fairness of mobility to citizens, in which almost citizens can ride them at any area. However, such routes are convenient on the way to go, but inconvenient on the way back, and it is essential to understand the actual situation focusing on round-trip usages. A logistic regression analysis was therefore conducted on “Kururin-bus”, which operated in Nisshin City, Aichi Prefecture, in order to understand the relationship between the route characteristics between bus ODs and round-trip usages. As a result, it was found that the both-direction route, average travel time, round-trip fare, average detour rate, and nearby facilities were related to round-trip usages.